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  • Brown University Library offers LibQUAL+ Survey in effort to improve services

    Sarah Evelyn

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    Brown students and faculty interested in improving library services and winning fabulous prizes are encouraged to participate in a web based survey currently being hosted on the Brown University Library homepage (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/libqual/). Entitled LibQUAL and sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the survey is designed to help libraries assess their strengths and weaknesses. Brown is one of 144 colleges and universities participating in the spring 2008 LibQUAL+ survey, which was last administered on campus in 2005. The survey will be administered between April 7th-30th. By submitting a confidential survey, participants are eligible to win one of four prizes; winners can select from either an iPod shuffle or a $50 gift certificate to the Brown Bookstore. To date, nearly 1,300 members of the Brown community have completed the survey. “I am pleased to offer this quick and painless survey to the thousands of patrons who rely on our services,” said Harriette Hemmasi, Joukowsky Family University Librarian. “By filling out the short form, our users will make their voices heard and will let us know what we need to do to make our services more responsive to their needs. The Library belongs to all of us and it is important that each member of the Brown community has a say in shaping the Library of tomorrow. I hope that as many people participate as possible.” The survey itself is based on the SERVQUAL instrument, a popular tool for assessing service quality in the private sector, and was modified for the library setting through extensive research conducted at the Texas A&M University Libraries (supported in part by a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education). The survey has had a significant impact in shaping Library priorities. Feedback from the 2005 LibQUAL+ survey led the Library to place a particular emphasis on upgrading facilities (e.g., renovations in the Rock, Friedman Study Center, etc.), adding more digital content, and revamping its web site. For more information contact LibQUAL@brown.edu or phone 863-9445.

  • Looking at Jazz, Part 4, April 24

    Sarah Evelyn

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    This Thursday evening at 7:30 PM in the Grant Recital Hall (behind Orwig), will be Part 4 of the Jazz film series, “Looking at Jazz” This week’s presentation features the film “Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing” a film by Oren Jacoby ’77. The film will be introduced by Ed Hayslip, a well-known record collector, jazz DJ and a walking encyclopedia of early jazz, and Ned Quist, Orwig Music Librarian.

    The series, a project of RE: New Media with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, is co-sponsored by the Brown University Libraries and the Dept. of Music. Ned Quist and Matt McGarrell are the co-directors of the series.

    Future Showings:

    • On May 12 – Dana Gooley, Ass’t Prof. of Music will introduce John Holland’s film “A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba”
    • On May 22 – Matt McGarrell, Senior Lecturer in Music and Director of Brown Bands will introduce Matthew Sieg’s documentary “Lady Day: the Many Faces of Billie Holiday”

    Hope to see you there! Admission is free. For further information contact Ned Quist

  • The Demon of Melancholy: Genealogies, Modernities

    Sarah Evelyn

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    April 14 – May 16, 2008
    Lownes Room, John Hay Library
    20 Prospect Street
    Providence, Rhode Island 02912

    The exhibit runs from April 14 to May 16, 2008 and is open to the public during normal library opening hours: Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
    From antiquity to modern times, from the confinement of enclosed spaces to open-ended journeys of displacement, as part of an individual or collective experience, Melancholy has been a source of inspiration and contemplation for philosophers, aesthetes, writers, artists, and scientists.

    This exhibition presents works from the collections of the John Hay Library and Rockefeller Library and is designed to accompany the Conference “The Demon of Melancholy: Geneaologies, Modernities” which will take place at Brown University on April 24th and 25th, 2008.

    For more information please contact Hay@brown.edu or visit http://www.brown.edu/Departments/French/melancholy.html

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